Gerhard Feyerabend

Gerhard Feyerabend (29 April 1898-6 November 1965) was a Generalleutnant of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Gerhard Feyerabend was born in Gut Dopsattel, East Prussia, German Empire on 29 April 1898, and he served as an Imperial German Army officer during World War I. Feyerabend rose in the ranks of the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht during the Interwar period, and he started World War II as a lieutenant-colonel during the 1939 invasion of Poland. Feyerabend served in the general staff during the invasions of France, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union, and he became commander of the German 11th Infantry Division in Courland on 9 November 1944. Feyerabend was promoted to Generalleutnant on 23 February 1945, and he prevented the collapse of the Courland Pocket until the war's end on 8 May 1945. His wife and daughter were killed by Soviet Red Army soldiers during the East Prussian Offensive, and Feyerabend was in Soviet captivity until July 1947. He died in Rottach-Egern, Bavaria in 1965.